A case of interleukin-6-producing cardiac myxoma resembling multicentric Castleman's disease

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009 Aug;138(2):499-501. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.05.048. Epub 2008 Aug 30.

Authors

Atsutomo Morishima¹, Akira Marui, Takeshi Shimamoto, Yoshiaki Saji, Takeshi Nishina, Masashi Komeda

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

PMID: 19619805
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.05.048

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Castleman Disease / diagnosis*
Castleman Disease / pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Heart Neoplasms / metabolism
Heart Neoplasms / pathology
Humans
Interleukin-6 / blood
Interleukin-6 / metabolism*
Male
Myxoma / diagnosis*
Myxoma / metabolism
Myxoma / pathology

Substances

Interleukin-6